
Babes of Science
Susan La Flesche Picotte
<p>Susan La Flesche was the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She proceeded to become the physician for the Omaha Nation, traveling by horse and buggy to care for a community spread across an area the size of Rhode Island.</p> <p>Babes of Science is a podcast that seeks to answer two questions: Who are the women who changed the trajectory of science? And why has it taken us so long to recognize their work?</p> <p>Image courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections.</p> <p>Music in this episode:<br /> Chance, Luck...



